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Steam to drop support for Ubuntu but Linux users shouldn’t panic yet - SlashGear

Google News - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 10:40
Steam to drop support for Ubuntu but Linux users shouldn’t panic yet  SlashGear

The majority of the time that Linux gets dragged in the spotlight is when there are high-profile security bugs that remind people how Linux practically runs the.

There's A Professional Grade Digital Cinema Camera Powered By Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 07:25
Digital camera startup Octopus Cinema has been designing the "OCTOPUSCAMERA" as a digital cinema camera that's professional grade yet is an open platform with removable/upgradeable parts and this camera platform itself is running Linux...

There's A Professional Grade Digital Cinema Camera Powered By Linux - Phoronix

Google News - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 07:25
There's A Professional Grade Digital Cinema Camera Powered By Linux  Phoronix

Digital camera startup Octopus Cinema has been designing the "OCTOPUSCAMERA" as a digital cinema camera that's professional grade yet is an open ...

Linux computer seller Star Labs now offering laptops with Zorin OS - BetaNews

Google News - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 06:58
Linux computer seller Star Labs now offering laptops with Zorin OS  BetaNews

If you want a computer with a Linux-based operating system pre-installed, you can never go wrong with System76 or Dell. Of course, those two companies are ...

Steam Is About to Drop Official Support for Ubuntu - Gizmodo

Google News - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 01:35
Steam Is About to Drop Official Support for Ubuntu  Gizmodo

Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu 19.10 and future releases for its mega-popular Steam video game distribution platform, per Engadget, as the ...

Steam: Support wird für Ubuntu-Distributionen ab 19.10 eingestellt - WinFuture

Google News - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 01:20
Steam: Support wird für Ubuntu-Distributionen ab 19.10 eingestellt  WinFuture

Ein Vertreter von Valve hat angekündigt, dass die Spiele-Plattform Steam keine Ubuntu-Distributionen ab Version 19.10 mehr unterstützen wird. Diese ...

Week in review: Kali Linux roadmap, runtime container security, new issue of (IN)SECURE - Help Net Security

Google News - Mon, 06/24/2019 - 00:00
Week in review: Kali Linux roadmap, runtime container security, new issue of (IN)SECURE  Help Net Security

Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, articles and podcasts: Research shows Tesla Model 3 and Model S are vulnerable to GPS.

Ubuntu Developer Talks Down Impact Of 32-Bit Changes For Ubuntu 19.10

Phoronix - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 23:00
Following Valve saying they won't be officially supporting Ubuntu 19.10 and Wine developers questioning their Ubuntu 32-bit builds following the announcement this week of not providing new 32-bit packages for new Ubuntu releases, longtime Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Steve Langasek is trying to provide some clarity into the situation...

Chrome OS 76 will disable Crostini Linux backups by default - About Chromebooks

Google News - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 20:29
Chrome OS 76 will disable Crostini Linux backups by default  About Chromebooks

The ability to easy backup and restore the Linux files and data in a Crostini container that arrived in Chrome OS 74 seems to be working well for me. However ...

AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3 - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 20:00
AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3  Phoronix

On Saturday night AMDGPU/Radeon DRM maintainer Alex Deucher sent in the final batch of feature updates to DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux ...

AMD Sends In Navi Support & Other Remaining AMDGPU Changes For Linux 5.3

Phoronix - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 20:00
On Saturday night AMDGPU/Radeon DRM maintainer Alex Deucher sent in the final batch of feature updates to DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 5.3 kernel...

CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 Get Important Linux Kernel Update to Patch SACK Panic Flaws - LXer

Google News - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 18:54
CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 Get Important Linux Kernel Update to Patch SACK Panic Flaws  LXer

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS Linux operating systems have received new Linux kernel security updates that are marked as important and address ...

KDE's Night Color Feature Being Ported From Wayland To X11

Phoronix - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 18:51
It's another busy summer in the KDE space with a nice mixture of bug fixes and features being pursued for KDE Frameworks, KDE Plasma, and KDE Applications...

Fedora 31 Will Finally Disable OpenSSH Root Password-Based Logins By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 18:06
Fedora 31 will harden up its default configuration by finally disabling password-based OpenSSH root log-ins, matching the upstream default of the past four years and behavior generally enforced by other Linux distributions...

Linux Kernel "LOCKDOWN" Ported To Being An LSM, Still Undergoing Review

Phoronix - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 16:45
It didn't make it for the Linux 5.2 kernel and now it's up to its 33rd revision on the Linux kernel mailing list... The "lockdown" patches for locking down access to various kernel hardware features has been reworked now and is a Linux Security Module (LSM) as it still tries to get enough endorsements to be mainlined...

Linux Kernel "LOCKDOWN" Ported To Being An LSM, Still Undergoing Review - Phoronix

Google News - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 16:45
Linux Kernel "LOCKDOWN" Ported To Being An LSM, Still Undergoing Review  Phoronix

It didn't make it for the Linux 5.2 kernel and now it's up to its 33rd revision on the Linux kernel mailing list... The "lockdown" patches for locking down access to ...

DragonFlyBSD Picks Up Radeon Performance Improvements With Latest Code Update

Phoronix - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 14:57
Slipping just past this week's DragonFlyBSD 5.6 release is now an early feature for the next series: continued work on the Radeon DRM driver ported to this BSD from the Linux kernel...

One Of AMD's Leading LLVM Compiler Experts Jumped Ship To Unity

Phoronix - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 12:05
AMD has lost one of their leading LLVM compiler developers as well as serving as a Vulkan/SPIR-V expert with being involved in those Khronos specifications...

Steam will stop supporting Ubuntu Linux over 32-bit compatibility - Engadget

Google News - Sun, 06/23/2019 - 10:04
Steam will stop supporting Ubuntu Linux over 32-bit compatibility  Engadget

If you're a Linux gamer who prefers Ubuntu, you might want to look for another distribution in the near future. Valve is dropping official support for Ubuntu i...

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